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Building a Web Site

Getting Started with Blogger - If you don't have a website and are looking for a easy and free solution, than Google's Blogger may be the place to go. The Independent Writer's Support Group is a blogger site.

WIX - WIX is a website hosting services that provides all of the tools that you might need to easily create a nice looking website. While it has a free version, you are likely to end up spending somewhere between $10.00 to $30.00 per month if you want to avoid having WIX ads on your site or if you want to use your own domain name.

WordPress - WordPress can be confusing. By itself it is simply a template and plugin management tool that allows you to build your own website. Where it gets tricky is that you can go to a commercial website like wordpress.com and pay them to host your website or you can download wordpress from wordpress.org and build your own website.

Namecheap.com - Namecheap is not a website, but a one stop hosting service. You can register your domain name there, get a website hosting package, install website management software like wordpress directly from their control panel. This is a paid service - nothing is free. But, and this is a big but, you'll probably spend between $50 to $100 a year (as opposed to a month at other sites). It does require you to do the setup. If you aren't comfortable with technology make sure you know someone who is. A website hosted at Namecheap can be easy to maintain, but a little tricky to setup.

Scrivener - Scrivener is a writing desktop. You can do your outline, write your story, track your notes and research, manage you images and create a valid epub, mobi, pdf and a bunch of other file formats when you are all done.